JUDGMENT :

VIKRAM AGGARWAL, J.

1. The present revision petition is directed against the order dated 23.02.2023 vide which provisional rent was assessed by the Rent Controller, Hansi.

2. The respondent-landlord filed a petition under Section 13 of the Haryana Urban (Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Rent Act’) seeking eviction of the petitioner-tenant from a house situated in Hansi, District Hisar. The grounds of eviction were non-payment of rent, diminishing the value and utility of the tenanted premises and personal necessity of the elder son of the respondent-landlord. In the written statement filed by the petitioner-tenant, a stand was taken that an agreement to sell had been executed by the respondent-landlord in favour of the petitioner-tenant and that he had paid the entire sale consideration and had also filed a civil suit for specific performance as a result of which the relationship of landlord and tenant had come to an end. On merits also, the petition was resisted.

3. Before the Rent Controller, when the issue of assessment of provisional rent arose, a stand was taken by the petitioner-tenant that since the relationship of landlord and